Boone Gourlay
Artist member since 2022
ProToronto, Ontario
Adam Gourlay is an interdisciplinary artist that focuses on painting, drawing, and performance.
His most recent work involves exploring humour, honesty, memory, and truth. Key to this exploration is finding the balance between the maximal and the minimal, both in terms of composition, movements, stories, colours, and information. Experiments in application, additive methods, subtractive methods, and mark-making become part of the story of the work and are integral to the process. Most of the substrates he paints on and the tools he uses are repurposed or upcycled. These abstracted stories allow him to explore how objects, the land and people hold memory and how time, experience, and the stories we tell ourselves distorts it.
He has performed stand-up and sketch comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and across North America. His comedic experiences, especially improv and a mathematical approach to humour, impact his visual art. He has blended his love of comedy and visual art together to create a surreal style he refers to as 'Motel Art', which finds humour in the everyday and in very specific ways.
His work has been shown at the An Nasctha Gallery in Liverpool, and the Ada Slaight Gallery in Toronto. He has created works with the OSA and Ontario Archives, self-published a book of drawings called “Fuzzy Brain” and created a zine called, “Bob Ross Burned Down the White House".
Work
Paintings
The Pope is a Dirty Little Hoarder & I'm Going to Kiss Him in Hell
- Boone Gourlay
- 46.5" x 34.5"
- $1850 buy — $93 try
Mitochondria (Light Filters Cheap Through Loud Venetian Blinds)
- Boone Gourlay
- 49.5" x 26.8" x 1.5"
- $1550 buy — $78 try
The Line in the Sand in the Crack in the Seat of a Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo
- Boone Gourlay
- 20" x 16"
- $450 buy — $39 try
Q+A
Beverage of choice
Room temp. coffee
Favourite musical artist / band right now
Talking Heads
Best season of the year in Toronto
Baseball
Describe the person your work appeals to in 3 words
dumb, smart, real
Describe your home in 3 words
Messy, loving, fun
Favourite movie
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
Select Past Exhibitions
2022
2022
2021
2020
2019
Accolades
2018
Education
2022
2018
2013
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